Relegated to a nerds-only society ("Pacific Tech"), college whiz kids operate in a caste system all their own. Here, engineering student Val Kilmer is the kooky Einsten ("I didn't want you guys to think I was stuffy. You know. No fun. All brain, no penis."). With help from his socially stunted roommate, he takes on school/military bureacracy.

The geeks and scientists — including the never-cool combo of Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens — design a robot to learn. The military wants to use it to destroy. The real nerd here: robot Johnny Five, charmingly devoid of social skills (on seeing Ally Sheedy: "Attractive! Nice software.")

Talented computer hacker gets coerced into bank-robbing ring that is actually a cover-up for an anti-terrorism organization. Halle Berry shows it all. Fellatio is used as a torture mechanism at one point.